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Peter
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Happy New Year, Ken!

If I may make a suggestion. I don't think you need to dispose of your Miramax DVDs. Whilst we can all agree Weinstein is a scumbag, the films he produced were collaborative efforts by talented people, many of whom won't have been aware of what he was doing. I own DVDs of films he produced but I won't deprive myself of enjoying those films because of him. I also own the Naked Gun trilogy and I still enjoy watching them despite the fact OJ Simpson is in them.

My resolution is to try and lose a bit of weight. And read more novels.

Finally watch Game of Thrones.Write a play. Write another play.Move my funny bone closer to my writing hand.Finish a script and submit.Write another script.Read more often (> 1/2 book/year)Find out how many people mistake Ken Levine (game developer) for Ken Levine (screenwriter).Cook one meal from scratch.

OK fine. Peter Scolari on Newhart.The extension of that obscure reference is the series final shot which I posted on FB with a pic of Bob and Suzanne in bed.:I was hoping to wake up today and tell my wife about this weird dream I had where a bunch of country bumpkins had taken over the country and let a clueless 12 year old bully with tiny hands be president. Turns out it wasn't a dream.

Donald Trump is not a country bumpkin.He's a Park Avenue Brat who got to be Bully of the Town by selling himself to toadies of all neighborhoods, who were more than willing to sell themselves out to him.

"Some fools there were Who made their prayer To a rag, a bone And a hank of hair." - Kipling (I think - correction welcomed)

To impeach the president requires you to be a member of the House of Representatives

And vote on articles of impeachment (as happened during the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton) which would require a simple majority.

So... are you announcing your candidacy or just making comedy like Senator Franken used to do on SNL?

Actually being a Senator vs a Representative would enable to you to Vote for the President's removal from office if the House does indeed vote for Impeachment. I believe THIS is what you actually mean by "Impeach the President". You don't wish him to be President any longer.

Friday question for ya Ken.

Have you ever done a joke that you knew in your heart the central facts were false? But since there was no comedy value in actually explaining the true fact nuances you went with the joke anyway. Thus perpetuating a false narrative while getting that laugh.

And if you did, did you feel remorse in perpetuating a false story line?

The example above makes a good example "Impeach the President" is imperfect since as happened with Clinton you can impeach a President and he's still President and you wasted everyone's time if the Senate does not have 66 votes supporting.

I think Angry Gamer is talking about scenes such as the one on Cheers where the door or swinging lid on the bar slams and destroys the glass held above the bar. Then Sam remarks, "That is why we keep the door open." Quite frankly, I wouldn't give a care in the world because you are supposed to suspend belief for everything. For me personally, it was nice to hear that a Cheers episode "ended" in "North Dakota."

@Cap'n bob Now if Indiana and its habit of putting guns in crackerjack boxes were further away then Chicago would be a lot safer.Gun laws work when one doesn't have wingnut states in close proximity.Hawaii has sticker gun laws and among the lowest shooting statistics in US Any number of facts and studies with Australia and Canada being living proof of the effectiveness of limiting the tools of murder that the weak minded can access.But being a ammosexual means reality is an elusive concept and delusional fantasies rule ones lack of logic.

@bob Everything is small.If one votes for a thuglican one is weak minded.if one thinks that guns are the solution to family arguements That is weak mindedIf one thinks that one genetic group of people are superior to another that is weak mindedif one thinks that demented donnie doesn't belong in a jail that is weak mindedIf one thinks that guns are a tool of pro lfe that is weak minded

The guns used in Chicago are brought in from Indiana ( the state line abuts East Chicago city limits) Most of the guns used are from indiana a state that used to proudly brag how they had the greatest number of klan members north of the traitor states ( mason-dixon line separates the traitors from those who defended the country)

Thanks for all you do (mostly putting a smile on my face - guess that puts you in a category with Natalie Wood, although completely different!) Ken!my resolution is to check-off at least one more MLB city on my tour and see a ball game (I'm halfway through the AL)...ambitiously look forward to catching the new Orson Welles film due out this year...master another slow cooker meal, always centring around the secret ingredient of mustard ...read more ...exercise regularly ...keep on truckin' (in a '70s sense, not like Claude Akins) ...see a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup again !

Need to call out some Fake news: " (I assume you mean like the ones in Chicago, Murder City, USA)." thanks to the NRA, Chicago no longer has the strictest gun laws, despite what Trump says (even when he says "believe me", he isn't truthful). Indiana has much more liberal gun laws (see other posts above). But we are digressing.I am in agreement of your review of GG. Always good to get an "insiders" view.

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